(BCN) – Nine Bay Area prosecutors will share $3.7 million in state grants to develop and implement wage theft enforcement programs, the state Department of Industrial Relations said Friday. The department said in a press release that the grants will enable prosecutors to address exploitative labor industry trends and obstacles workers confront in reporting violations. […]
A 2018 slow traffic pursuit in
Danville, California turned fatal when prosecutors say a police officer unjustifiably shot a man nine times. Over two years later, former deputy
Andrew Hall is being charged with felony voluntary manslaughter and felony assault with a semi-automatic firearm for the shooting death of 33 year-old
Laudemer Arboleda.
“Officer Hall used unreasonable and unnecessary force when he responded to the in-progress traffic pursuit involving Laudemer Arboleda, endangering not only Mr. Arboleda’s life but the lives of his fellow officers and citizens in the immediate area,” Contra Costa County
District Attorney Diana Becton said in a statement on Wednesday.